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<p>I&rsquo;ve been coding on the side. This was is to learn, to keep fresh, and hopefully
to build something useful.</p>
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<p>Dec 9th, 2011, I started down the road to learn how to code a PHP framework. This was
a learning project since I had not played with PHP in awhile and I wanted to make
something that I might be able to use down the road. I met KirbyCMS and a also a few
other systems that I cannot remember the names of. They have proved to be great
inspirations.</p>

<p>Because of my history, I wanted a MVC structure, but that was file-based and not
database driven. Sure, leave in the ability to contact a database if you want, but the
main purpose of my framework was content management. Because of GIT and Google Code, I
knew that my &ldquo;pages&rdquo; would be versioned and backed up, so I wasn't trying to
recreate that. I simply wanted a system that I could upload a file and have a new
page.</p>

<p>Well, I feel that I'm coming very close to version 1.0, or maybe 0.1, or something
like that. Without deadlines I could tinker forever, so I'll need to tag a version on
this soon just to get it out there.</p>

<blockquote>Who will use it?</blockquote>

<p>I&rsquo;m not sure! But if I need to describe them, they must know PHP, they must know
HTML, and they must be able to FTP into a determined structure. This isn't Wordpress, or
Joomla, and I don't have a WYSIWYG built in. But if you can open Textedit, Notepad, or
VIM and type a mix of PHP and HTML, then you're the one this is for.</p>

<blockquote>I want it&hellip; where can I get it?</blockquote>

<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/tygor/Liriope-Framework" target="_blank">Liriope
Framework</a>. I plan to keep it there for awhile longer, if not permanently as it is. I
haven't tagged it yet, so make sure you grab the development branch.</p>

<p>I've run out of words&hellip; find me if you want to chat.</p>

